5.3 LSA build

[masterofnone]

Ohh man, our cars are almost twinsies! Except you are probably going to have double the power aha

Bring on the smoking tires!

[TeXJ]

hey another question, for ya.

Why the 5.3 and not the 6.2 or even the 6.0?

[Supadave]

hey another question, for ya.

Why the 5.3 and not the 6.2 or even the 6.0?

The 5.3 (LC9) is the strongest aluminum block. It has the thickest sleeves. Great for BOOST

Price compared to aluminum 6.0/6.2

[TeXJ]

aww ok, that makes sense. The redneck in me has always wanted to LS swap my e30 :D

#lsswaptheworld

[The Dark Side of Will]

The 5.3 (LC9) is the strongest aluminum block. It has the thickest sleeves. Great for BOOST

Price compared to aluminum 6.0/6.2

Smaller bore means less total force trying to lift the head, too.

[Supadave]

I got tired of being on my back under the car and under the dash. So I decided to do something standing up. I worked on getting the nitrous spray bar and meth injection installed.

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Pulled the blower lid off.
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Installing gaskets.
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Spacer and gasket
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Spray bars
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Drilling holes for the meth injection
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[The Dark Side of Will]

I got tired of being on my back under the car and under the dash. So I decided to do something standing up. I worked on getting the nitrous spray bar and meth injection installed.

20190202_155839 by Supa Khan, on Flickr

That's an impressive buy/fly ratio.

I hear you about being fed up with being under the car.

[Pootis]

Seller the blower assembly and buy a maxjax lol

[Supadave]

Seller the blower assembly and buy a maxjax lol

I really want one like the one you have.

[Supadave]

Hooked up the gear indicator.

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[Supadave]

Well doesn't look like I'm going to make TX2k:(. The AN fittings a had welded to the blower lid started leaking. The same shop did the same crappy welding job on the heat exchanger inside the blower lid. I had this work done about 4 months ago and the shop would not stand by their work. I blame myself for 1. accepting the shit work 2. For not looking the shop up.

Anyway I found a awesome shop in Houston, Speed Lab Creations. I had those guys finish the work on the blower lid. Man what difference. I'm going to have these guys build my exhaust for me to. Tried looking around for other speed shops but everybody is booked because of TX2K. They will be able take my E30 after the event. Oh well no sense in rushing now.

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[Nick_08]

Superb build so far. Glad to see you're taking your time and doing things right the first time. Those welds were haggard AF ^. Wish I would have been following the build up to this point could have chimed in a few times .

Keep up with your build progress...sub'd :up:

[Supadave]

Superb build so far. Glad to see you're taking your time and doing things right the first time. Those welds were haggard AF ^. Wish I would have been following the build up to this point could have chimed in a few times .

Keep up with your build progress...sub'd :up:

Thanks

[wworm]

I hope to see this on the 1320 youtube channel lol

[Supadave]

Worked on the button panel last night. Found a piece of abs plastic and cut it to fit where the OBC went.

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